Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted when I am contradicted.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

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

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.