. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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.

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.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

He preaches well that lives well

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.