Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.