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.

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.

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

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.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

I don't write for a particular audience.

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.