I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

Be of good heart.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying 'You are not a painter' then by all means paint — and that voice will be silenced.

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

They are vast stretches of corn under troubles skies, and I did not need to go out of my way to try to express sadness and the extreme of loneliness...I almost think that these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words, the health and fortifying power that I see in the country.

So I think there must be more animation, and we must throw all doubts overboard, and also a certain lack of confidence. Do you want a motive for keeping one's serenity even when one is isolated and misunderstood, and has lost all chance for material happiness? This one thing remains - faith; one feels instinctively that an enormous number of things are changing and that everything will change. We are living in the last quarter of a century that will end again in a tremendous revolution.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.