We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

You need to set a system of rewards and punishment for yourself and your team

It's nice when little teams win.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.