Freedom and independence form my character.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

You got to get it while you can.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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