I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

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

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.