“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.”