You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.