If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

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.

How long should you try? Until.

I am the captain of my soul.

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

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire