No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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

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

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.