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.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

How long should you try? Until.

Be yourself, let you come through.

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.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

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

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

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

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

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.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

I believe that every person is born with talent.