Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.