Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Above all things, respect yourself.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.