Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Aim for the highest.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

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

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

You got to get it while you can.

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

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.