Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.