Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
They alone live, who live for others.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Ideas come from everything
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
You shape your own destiny.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.