Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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?

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

Aim for the highest.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.