Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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

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

Ideas come from everything

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.