All Quotes

"I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

"Staying in one place is the best path to be taken over and surpassed by many."

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens."

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world."

"Never mistake motion for action."

"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."

"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."