What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

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.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

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.

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.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.