What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.