One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

You have to be honest about who you are.

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts.