Archived Quotes

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The secret of getting ahead

is getting started

It’s my way or the highway.

If you light a lamp for someone else,

it will also brighten your path.

Don’t agonize.

Organize.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right;

but it is my constant anxiety and prayer

that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

I have no hostility to nature,

but a child's love to it.

I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

It is not the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out;

it’s the pebble in your shoe.

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is

to become so absolutely free that your very existence is

an act of rebellion.

Be honest in your art;

authenticity always resonates.

I like thinking big.

If you’re going to be thinking anything,

you might as well think big.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted;

it belongs to the brave.

I start early and I stay late,

day after day,

year after year.

Being authentic is more important than being popular.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Nothing stinks like the denial of your own feelings.