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

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

United we stand; divided we fall.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.