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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you?.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.