The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.