Necessity knows no law except to prevail.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

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

Action expresses priorities.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.