The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

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.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

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

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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