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

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Know thyself.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

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

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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.

One man with courage is a majority.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.