Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Each soul is potentially divine.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.