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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

One man with courage is a majority.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

There is always room at the top.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.