A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

A leader leads by example not by force.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.