Chance favors only the prepared mind.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.