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.

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

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

They alone live, who live for others.

All thinking men are atheists.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You are never too old to become younger!

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.