How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.