Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

It's always too early to quit.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

The best way out is always through.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.