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.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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

How long should you try? Until.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

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.

Aim for the highest.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.