Every quote, in one place.

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”

“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“The more we have the less we own.”

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

“You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”

“Religion is the opium of the people.”

“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”

“If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

“In art the best is good enough.”

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

“Believe you can and you will be halfway there.”

“I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.”

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”

“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”