Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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

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

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

When I give, I give myself.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.