Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Common sense is not so common.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.