“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”

“Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.”

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”