The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank god, I am as good as the best.
The real war will never get in the books.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Be curious, not judgmental.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.
That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse.