Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

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

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Freedom and independence form my character.

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.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

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

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.