It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery.Aw, Tyson, " I'd say. "It's not that simple.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?