Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Aim for the highest.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.