For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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.

Make today worth remembering.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.