I have my right to courage as much as you have your right to fear.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

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

We are our choices.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

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

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.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.