Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

Take criticism seriously, but not personally.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.

Every man contains within him all the possibilities of the universe.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.