James Watson

The greatest discovery of all is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The only constant in life is change.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.