Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

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.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.