Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

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.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

It's always too early to quit.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

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

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

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.