To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
United we stand; divided we fall.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.