Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.