Without action, knowledge is dead.

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.