I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

All thinking men are atheists.

Make today worth remembering.