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

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

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.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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.