You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

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.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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