People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.