"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they make the best of everything."
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far, I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
"Life is trying things to see if they work."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
"If you want to shine like a sun first burn like a sun"
"Find joy in the journey."
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
“My greatest achievement was convincing my wife to marry me.”
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."
"Light tomorrow with today."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere until you change it."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
“I’m tired of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and catch up with them later.”
"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission."
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."