What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

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.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

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

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.