Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
How long should you try? Until.
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.
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?
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Always do what you are afraid to do.