Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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