You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.