The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
What can't be cured must be endured.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.