If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

You shape your own destiny.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

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

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

It's always too early to quit.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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.