My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Everything you can imagine is real.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.