Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.