People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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.

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.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

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

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I am the captain of my soul.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.