“Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.”

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Self-confidence is the new normal.

People don’t buy your product, they buy your confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you ‘re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.