I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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.

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

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.

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

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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