A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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