When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.