No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

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.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Ideas come from everything

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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

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

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.