Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Aim for the highest.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

It's always too early to quit.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

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.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Make today worth remembering.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.