Be not afraid of moving slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.