It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.