To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.