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

I am the captain of my soul.

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.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

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

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

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