Listen to many, speak to a few.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I am the captain of my soul.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
