Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Freedom and independence form my character.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
