What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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.

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Where words fail, music speaks.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

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

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.