“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Kindness is stronger than fear.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Ability without honor is useless.

Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.

Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it’s the wildest idea – raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I’ve always wanted kids.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.