Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

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

Above all things, respect 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.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.