It always seems impossible until it's done.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

All wealth is the product of labor.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

How long should you try? Until.

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

It's always too early to quit.

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.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I am the captain of my soul.