Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Aim for the highest.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.