You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
It's always too early to quit.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.