If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.