Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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.
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.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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.
