Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

I'm personally offended when I am scored on

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.