Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Everything you can imagine is real.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

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.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Above all things, respect yourself.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.