It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.