We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.