First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
