While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Every wall is a door.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Everything isn’t political.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.