It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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?
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.