If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.