You must do things that you cannot do.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Do one thing every day that scares you.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die....

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

What one has to do usually can be done.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is...

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up...

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to...

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) “certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can...

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable,...

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: “No good in a bed, but fine up against a...

You must do the things you think you cannot.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

…so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and...

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

…our children must learn…to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results…the whole democratic system…depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable...

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying...

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met...

…no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.