Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Is there life before death?
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.