Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

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.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.