I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.