What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Freedom and independence form my character.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.