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

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

They alone live, who live for others.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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.

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.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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.