The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

United we stand; divided we fall.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.