“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”

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.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.