If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We're lost, but we're making good time

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

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

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

You shape your own destiny.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.