You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

How long should you try? Until.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

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.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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.