I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.