If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

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.

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

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

It always seems impossible until it's done.