When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.