Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

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

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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.

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

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

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.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.