It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

You got to get it while you can.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.