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.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.