I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

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.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

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

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

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

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

You shape your own destiny.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

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

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.