One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.