To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

The best way out is always through.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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.

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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

It's always too early to quit.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.