Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

There is always room at the top.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.