Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

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

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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

All thinking men are atheists.