“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thus you shall progress.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”