Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.