I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

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I cannot live without books.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law, than that he should escape.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.