God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'