Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

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.