“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

“Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

“Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“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.”