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.
The man with no imagination has no wings.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
The time is always right to do the right thing
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
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.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover 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
