A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.