I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.