Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself.
If the deer had guns too, then, and only then, would hunting truly be a sport.
Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth.
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Though this be madness, yet there's method in't.