I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The time is always right to do the right thing

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

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.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.