“As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.”

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.