The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
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.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.