You have to make the rules, not follow them.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Aim for the highest.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
The man with no imagination has no wings.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.