Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
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.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
They alone live, who live for others.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.