I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

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.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.