Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be.

To live a creative life , we must lose our fear of being wrong.

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.