To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

You are never too old to become younger!