The world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.