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

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

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

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.