Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.