It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Life is but thought.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
