With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

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.

When I give, I give myself.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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.

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

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

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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

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

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.