We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

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

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Above all things, respect yourself.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.