If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
What I stand for is what I stand on.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
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.
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
