I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

truth is a letter from courage!