We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

How long should you try? Until.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.