It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

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

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

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.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

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.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.