I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

They alone live, who live for others.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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 am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.