“ Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. ”

“ The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ”

“ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ”

“ Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ”

“ It is not the length of life, but the depth. ”

“ Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ”

“ Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ”

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ”

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

“ To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ”

“ A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. ”

“ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ”