Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
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.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.