A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

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

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

You shape your own destiny.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.