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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

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.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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