The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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.

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

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

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

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.