“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.”

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.

If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.

There is no future without forgiveness.

When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.

Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future.

Nature is vital to our future.