The unexamined life is not worth living.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.