Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You got to get it while you can.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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

All thinking men are atheists.

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

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.