Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.