Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.