Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

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.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.