Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

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

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.