I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

You are never too old to become younger!

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.