Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.