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

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

It's always too early to quit.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.