Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

Don't fear for facing failure in the first attempt, because even the successful maths starts with zero only.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.