“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.”

“In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.”

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

“See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.”

“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ”

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”

“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”

“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition.”

“I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.”

“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“To be a man is...to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”