The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.