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

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

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.