It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.