The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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

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.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.