I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
You are never too old to become younger!
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.