It always seems impossible until it's done.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.