We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Everything you can imagine is real.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.