When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.