Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.