Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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.
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.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
