Take the journey to enjoy the view.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

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

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

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.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Man is a universe in little.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.