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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

You got to get it while you can.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

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.

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

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

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.