Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

Find purpose, the means will follow.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Think like an active person and behave like a thoughtful person.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

My homeland is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Without haste, but without rest.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

I'm a very demanding person, but I demand of myself first.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

The more we do, the more we can do.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field.

The university should be a place where students are taught how to find out things for themselves.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

What I produce is due to my understanding of music and to my sorrows.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

You and I may not live to see the day, and my name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past; and it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear.

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

I praise loudly; I blame softly.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

No matter how far you dream, it’s within reach as long as you believe in the possibilities.

The same rays were emitted continuously, without any noticeable attenuation, and without any external excitation.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I will be good.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Genius is eternal patience.

It always seems impossible until it's done.