Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

You are never too old to become younger!

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.