The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.