All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
The time is always right to do the right thing
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.