To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Action expresses priorities.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

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.

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

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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Vision without execution is hallucination.