“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“What you're afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.”

“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing do it with all your might. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective.”

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'”

“Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood.”