Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.