He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Nothing is ever over when it is alive inside a human heart. You'll always be an echo in my words.

Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!