If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg