The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

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

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.