I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.