"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."

"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."

"You become what you think about all day long."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"Imitation is suicide."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."

"To fill the hour──that is happiness."