Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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.

United we stand; divided we fall.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.