With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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

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

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.