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

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

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

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.