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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.
The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
... think a thought you can accept. "My success is coming to me now," or "all things lead to my success."
To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.