We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

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.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

All wealth is the product of labor.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

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.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.