To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.