If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

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

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

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.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.