The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

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

Aim for the highest.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.