The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Ignorance is short-lived, and knowledge is forever.

If I have been able to see farther, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.