Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
