The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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'.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.