Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.