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

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.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

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

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.