One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

The time is always right to do the right thing

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.