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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

There is no education like adversity.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

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

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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

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.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

True strength lies in gentleness.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.