Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

How long should you try? Until.

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

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

It's always too early to quit.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

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.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!