Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

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

The best way out is always through.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

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

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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 must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.