Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.