First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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