Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
When I give, I give myself.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
