If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.