“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.”

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Only the shallow know themselves.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

The mind is intrinsically tranquil.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.