One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...