No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

You shape your own destiny.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.