Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.