You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.