And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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.

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

All wealth is the product of labor.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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