Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.