“While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

“The time is always right to do what's right.”