I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.

Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.