Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Each soul is potentially divine.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.