People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

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...

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

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

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

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

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

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

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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