Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

There is always room at the top.

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

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

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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

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

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.