Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Impossible is just an opinion.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.