The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.