Every library is a palace

Don’t be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.

The present becomes the past instantaneously. Look back by all means but remember that you’re moving forward.

When you believe in yourself sufficiently and are confident that everything that you desire is inside you then you will possess the ability to produce all that you wish for.

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.