Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Know thyself.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.