Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

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

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.