When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
