Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

I love those who can smile in trouble...

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.