You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

They alone live, who live for others.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.