Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Never follow the crowd.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.