History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

All that matters is when you show your fans love it's like you're one of them.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.