"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures"

"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy"

"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them."

"Great success is commoner than great abilities."

"Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give."

"Do your best and let God do the rest."

"Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity."

"Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity."

"God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?"

"If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us."

"If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it."

"Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore."

"It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world."

"When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet."

"If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field."

"We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated."

"If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world."

"God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help."

"The doors of the world are opened to people who can read."

"If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country."

"I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others."

"I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions."

"People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems."

"When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives."

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

"There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe."

"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

"Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice"

"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

"If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world."

"If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world."

"Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard."

"I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?"

"…the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…"

"One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them."

"There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior."

"It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference."

"By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension."

"The doors of the world are open to dose who can read."

"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."

"Action makes more fortune than caution"