Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.