If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.