I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

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.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.