Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Be yourself, let you come through.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.