Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

The best way out is always through.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.