Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.