Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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...

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

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

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.