If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

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.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.