What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.