Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.
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.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
