So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

They alone live, who live for others.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.