A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

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.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

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

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.

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

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.