Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

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.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

You are never too old to become younger!

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.