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.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

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.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

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

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It's always too early to quit.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You shape your own destiny.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.