We must cultivate our garden.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

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.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

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

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.