They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

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 man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I am the captain of my soul.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.