Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

The best way out is always through.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

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