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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The best way out is always through.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.