When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.