Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.