Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.