Sucsess Quotes

The goal of my shows,

my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it,

whatever ventures I might pursue,

would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far

more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

Every day is a chance to reinvent yourself.

I was willing to accept

what I couldn't change.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

Learn from yesterday,

live for today,

hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Pain is part of the process;

it builds character.

Science is global.

Einstein's equation,

E=mc2,

has to reach everywhere.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity,

we should not distort it.

Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction has to make sense.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one

has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Lock up your libraries if you like;

but there is no gate,

no lock,

no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I grew up in a very funny house.

Life is all about evolving and growing as a person.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I love deadlines.

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.

All is system and gradation.

Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Keep your eyes on the stars,

and your feet on the ground.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Build a better mousetrap

and the world will beat a path to your door.