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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Make today worth remembering.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

The time is always right to do the right thing

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

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

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.