“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.” 

“Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.” 

“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.” 

“I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.” 

“Our destiny is largely in our hands.” 

“My hopes were never brighter than now.” 

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.” 

There is no royal road to perfection.”

“allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]

“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” 

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” 

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” 

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” 

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” 

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” 

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” 

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” 

“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

“Those who never take risks can only see other people’s failures.”

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.” –

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”