The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Perceptions are often misplaced.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? For. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.