Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Desire is the very essence of man.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.