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.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Ideas come from everything

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

There is always room at the top.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.