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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

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.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.