Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Every wall is a door.