People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Above all things, respect yourself.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

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

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!