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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I’ve come to understand that there’s always something positive, even in a negative situation.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.