I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
What I stand for is what I stand on.