When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.