Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.

Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.