Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
To be is to do.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Fortune favors the audacious.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
It’s the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
