You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.