Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Above all things, respect yourself.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

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

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.