The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

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.

Freedom and independence form my character.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

They alone live, who live for others.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.