First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.