Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.