Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Action expresses priorities.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

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.