We grow great by dreams.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.
Impossible is just an opinion.
I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Money won’t make you happy but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
