Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

When I give, I give myself.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.