Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

All wealth is the product of labor.

How long should you try? Until.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.