If you can accept losing, you can't win.

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

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.