It takes courage to examine what you think is true.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

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.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.