“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thus you shall progress.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”