The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.