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.

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

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.

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

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

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.

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.