Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

United we stand; divided we fall.

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.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.