The world makes way for the man with an idea.

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.

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / 人はいさ 心も知らず ふるさとは 花ぞ昔の 香ににほひける

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

Nobody believes in me more than me.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.

I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.