Every quote, in one place.

“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

“Don't stumble over something that's behind you.”

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

“The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”

“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you.”

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

“Wherever you go, there you are.”

“Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?”

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”

“Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”

“The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.”

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”