“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

“If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”

“With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

“The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.”

“Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.”

“There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.”