However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Know thyself.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.