Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

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

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.