When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

It's always too early to quit.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.