A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

 Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

 I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

 Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

 Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

You can do anything, but not everything.