The brave man is not the one who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

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

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.