I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

It's always too early to quit.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.