I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

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

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Aim for the highest.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

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.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

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.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.