"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can"

“What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” 

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” 

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” 

“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.” 

“No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia” 

“Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.” 

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” 

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.” 

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.” 

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. 

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. 

 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

It can be easily understood that there was no place in our life for worldly relations. 

There is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life.

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”

“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.”

“Live the moment for the moment.”

“I’d like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it’s never going to be completely normal.”

“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”

“See, one of the serious illusions we live under in the United States, which is a major part of the whole system of indoctrination, is the idea that the government is the power―and the government's not the power, the government is one segment of power. Real power is in the hands of the people who own the society; the state-managers are usually just servants.” 

“the man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding… and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be…. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it.”