Even something light is heavy for the unwilling.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Impossible is just an opinion.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.