When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.