It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I am not now That which I have been.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.