“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”

I love to be alone.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

You have not failed until you quit trying.