The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

United we stand; divided we fall.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

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.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.