The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful after all.

I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The seeking of knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim

-- Muhammad

Read, in the name of your Lord who created

-- Muhammad

Try to do what you cannot, so that you may learn how to do it.

-- Rembrandt

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

-- Richard Branson

In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

-- Peter Lynch

From the age of six I had a passion for drawing the forms of things.

-- Katsushika Hokusai