People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

[H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance.

Our creator is the King of all kings. Which makes us the royal children of His. So don't ever place yourself beneath or above any human being on earth.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.