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.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

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

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.