Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

All wealth is the product of labor.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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

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.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

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