What I stand for is what I stand on.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
I believe that every person is born with talent.