Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.

There was never a night or a problem That could defeat sunrise or hope.

We are what we repeatedly do. Success is not an action, but a habit.