Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Information is not knowledge.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.