Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live read more

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves
against the law.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves
against the law.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to read more

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to us.

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of
victory.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of
victory.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of read more

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them
as probabilities.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see read more

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.