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.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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.

There is always room at the top.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.