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

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Above all things, respect yourself.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.