“We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. ”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ”

“Let’s give the historians something to write about”

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never ceases by being shared.”

“If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That’s how it works. ”

“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved. ”

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ”

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Great ideas...come into the world as gently as doves...if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar...a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. ”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ”

“Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day...each moment of this day...a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains.”

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose ... not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

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

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ”

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ”

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ”

“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. ”

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

“You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.”

“Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.”

“Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ”