To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

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

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

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.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.