My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Make today worth remembering.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.