The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.