Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

A winner never taught me how to quit.