Make today worth remembering.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I am the captain of my soul.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.