Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You are never too old to become younger!

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!