Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.