When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

When I give, I give myself.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

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