Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
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.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Always do what you are afraid to do.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.