Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

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

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

All great achievements require time.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

A word after a word after a word is power.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Well done is better than well said.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.