When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

All thinking men are atheists.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

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

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.