We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

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

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Ideas come from everything

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.