People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Aim for the highest.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

All thinking men are atheists.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.