Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.