Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Action expresses priorities.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

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.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.