You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

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.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

I am the captain of my soul.