Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

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.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.