Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
They alone live, who live for others.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
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.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.