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

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

They alone live, who live for others.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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