Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Inspiration and genius – one and the same.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: “Leave no stone unturned."

If you would create something, you must be something.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

The best way out is always through.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Fortune favors the brave.

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.

He who hesitates is lost.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Charm is being so exquisitely buoyant and full of life keeping the magnet within you so surcharged with the joy of life that even poor features are lost sight of in the bewitching attraction of the whole.

My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.

Spend your free time the way you like not the way you think youre supposed to.