The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

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

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

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

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

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I am the captain of my soul.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

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

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.