It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.