And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.