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

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Aim for the highest.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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

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.

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.