If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.