Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Aim for the highest.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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.
I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.