When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.