Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

You are never too old to become younger!

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.