No man was ever wise by chance.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

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.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.