Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think

 not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The best way out is always through.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

We boil at different degrees.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Less is only more whereas more is no good.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

History is a vast early warning system.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.