Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The time is always right to do the right thing

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.