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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

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

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

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

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

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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