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

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

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.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.