We're lost, but we're making good time
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
