It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Giving up cannot be an option.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.