Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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

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

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.