An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.