The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

United we stand; divided we fall.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

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 invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.