Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most success out of life.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.