Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

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

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Be yourself, let you come through.

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

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.