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

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

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

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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.