If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

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.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

United we stand; divided we fall.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.