There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

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.

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

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

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.