For every dark night, there's a brighter day

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.