Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

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

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

You are never too old to become younger!

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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