A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

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.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.