We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.