To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.