Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

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.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Aim for the highest.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

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.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.