“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You become what you think about all day long.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Stars fade away in the morning, but your beauty still remains evident. Perhaps stars envy you.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Only hard work, good principles, and a foundation of relationships that are built upon shared goals – not envy – gets you to the top.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.