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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I am the captain of my soul.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.