The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

The best way out is always through.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.