I am the captain of my soul.
It always seems impossible until its done.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.
Nothing is black or white.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
Nothing is real.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy — so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature – if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you – know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
