Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I am the captain of my soul.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.