If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Now is the accepted time.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.