Do or do not. There is no try.
In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.
Ready are you? What know you of ready?
Already know you that which you need.
Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
Courage is exhilarating.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
