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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas, but I know that is not so.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.