The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

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.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Ideas come from everything

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