The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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.

It's always too early to quit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

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

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.