The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

Make today worth remembering.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.