The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

Society is a hospital of incurables.