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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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

The time is always right to do the right thing

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

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

It's always too early to quit.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

When I give, I give myself.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....