A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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

Ideas come from everything

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

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

All thinking men are atheists.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.