Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you’d just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

The time has come for us to consider seriously how to change our way of life not through prayer or religious teaching, but through education

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Be aware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.