You shape your own destiny.

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

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Above all things, respect yourself.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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