I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

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

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Aim for the highest.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....