You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. The plant develops its own nature. It also teaches itself, but you can help it to go forward in its own way. What you can do is to sow an aspiration-seed.

Trust no Future, however pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living Present!

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

“Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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