The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.