The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

All wealth is the product of labor.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Know thyself.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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