I don’t live for the approval of others. I live for myself.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Opportunities don’t happen; you create them.