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

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

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 dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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 not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.