Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Every intention is a trigger for transformation.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.