We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Fortune favors the audacious.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Well begun is half done.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
What worries you, masters you.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.