What you didn't do can be more important than what you do.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

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.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Man is a universe in little.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

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

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Action expresses priorities.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.