I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

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

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

False leaders create followers by lying.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.