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

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

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

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

There is always room at the top.

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

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

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

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

You got to get it while you can.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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