The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

The time is always right to do the right thing

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

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

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.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.