Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Nothing will work unless you do.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
