You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We're lost, but we're making good time

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.