“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”