Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
The harder I work the more I live.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
