He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.