Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

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