I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Ideas come from everything
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.