To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
All wealth is the product of labor.
You are never too old to become younger!
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
When I give, I give myself.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Above all things, respect yourself.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.