Please your eye and plague your heart.

You never know what you can do till you try.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

We have to use our great people.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.