Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

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

There is always room at the top.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.