When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
I cannot live without books.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Act without expectation.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.