There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.