The dog that trots about finds a bone.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

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

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

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

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.