The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
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.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.