When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
All wealth is the product of labor.
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.
All thinking men are atheists.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.