It always seems impossible until it's done.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

I am the captain of my soul.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.