Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I am the captain of my soul.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

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.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

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

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.