It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.