The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Action expresses priorities.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.