You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.