You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
All thinking men are atheists.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.