We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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.