Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...