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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Everything you can imagine is real.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

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

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.