Don't just stand there, make it happen.

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

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.