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

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.