People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at read more

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make read more

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something
to be enthusiastic about.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows read more

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does
with that moment will be more read more

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does
with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous
millennia.

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem
as a nail.

When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem
as a nail.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them.