To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

If you light a lamp for somebody, It will also brighten your own path.