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.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

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

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Aim for the highest.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.