Old age is no place for sissies.

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

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

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.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

True strength lies in gentleness.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.