Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

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

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.