“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.'

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.