“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

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.

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.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

The word ‘arrested,’ this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.