Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.