You always admire what you really don't understand.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.