“By seeking and blundering we learn.”

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Leap and the net will appear.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Everything transitory is but an image.

Remember to live.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Union in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

And I must learn every language to find a word that describes your beauty.