So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

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

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

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.

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.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

How long should you try? Until.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

You shape your own destiny.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.