If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.

Don’t be trapped by dogma

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Everything started as nothing.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will never invest in things that are radical.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.