The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.