“He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.”

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Places remember events.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Run at walls, break into new possibilities.

Nothing is possible without love, For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Anything’s possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.