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

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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.

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