The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.