Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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

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

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.