Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

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

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.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Freedom and independence form my character.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.