I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
All good things are wild and free.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.