It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

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.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I believe that every person is born with talent.