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

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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.

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

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.