Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Nothing is as harmful as expectations.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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

What we do now echoes in eternity.

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

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.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.