Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
All thinking men are atheists.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Listen to many, speak to a few.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Ideas come from everything
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
