Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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.

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.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.