Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

They alone live, who live for others.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.