A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

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.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.