You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.