Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

When I give, I give myself.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?