There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into labels, I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made