Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

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

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

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.