All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
They alone live, who live for others.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
There is always room at the top.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.