If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

We are all in the same boat, and it's a great big boat.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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.

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

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Think like a wise man, but express yourself like the common people.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

To do right to those who cannot hurt us, is the sublime of virtue.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The invention of languages is the foundation of my world.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

The more you know, the more you love.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Self-education is the only kind of education there is.

Our riches, being in our brains.

Inspiration is a guest which does not willingly visit the lazy.

The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

We must always work,and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

One swallow does not make a summer.

Most of our happiness depends on our 'way of being' that is, our character.

As a ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight, so is a man without a proper share of anxiety, pain, and trouble.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

If you ask what is most important to a tree, everyone will say it is the fruit. But in reality, it is the seed.

The higher a tree grows to the sky, the deeper its roots reach into the dark abyss.

Many people are stubborn about the path they have chosen, but few are stubborn about the goals themselves.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Become who you are.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Life is a noble thing. People polish this gem, bestowed by nature, until the shining light rewards their labor.

God helps those who help themselves.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Be yourself,everyone else is already taken.

Reality is what remains when the skin of the day is cast into the hedge.

Keep the main thing in mind, and let other things go.

I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.