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

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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