Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Action expresses priorities.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

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.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

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

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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