Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

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

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.