For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Dream and you shall become.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I am happy and I’m single.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?