The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none

Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. 

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.

Everything good is on the highway.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

What is true anywhere is true everywhere.

That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Free should the scholar be, — free and brave… Brave; for fear is a thing, which a scholar by his very function puts behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance… The world is his, who can see through its pretension.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

It isn't tIt isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.he mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.