The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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

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

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

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

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?