Nothing is black or white.
The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice…
None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.
Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Things do not change; we change.
