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

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

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

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Ideas come from everything

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

All thinking men are atheists.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

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.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.