Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
I want to put a ding in the universe.