I am the captain of my soul.
Difficulties break some men but make others.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
The world is his who has money to go over it.
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
