If we have a talent and learn somehow to use all of it, we have gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few individuals ever know.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

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

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.