It's always too early to quit.

How long should you try? Until.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

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

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.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Above all things, respect yourself.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.