I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

They alone live, who live for others.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

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

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

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.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.