You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

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

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

You are never too old to become younger!

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Freedom and independence form my character.