Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Aim for the highest.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

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

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.