A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.