Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 

 Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. 

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. 

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.