If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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

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

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

We're lost, but we're making good time

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could