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

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

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

“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.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

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

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”