An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

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

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

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

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Ignorance never settle a question.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.