
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide.

I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive. To be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It's just hard to imagine that I'm not going to wake up.

Act quickly, think slowly

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.