Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.