The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.