Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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

The best way out is always through.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.