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

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

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...