Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.