If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.