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

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

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

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.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.