People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

It's always too early to quit.

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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You shape your own destiny.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

United we stand; divided we fall.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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

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.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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.