Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.