Society and the World

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Do or do not. There is no try.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you’re right!

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.