Your free will lies in the directing of your attention.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.