There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
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.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
