Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.