Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

The best way out is always through.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You are never too old to become younger!

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.