Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Free should the scholar be, — free and brave… Brave; for fear is a thing, which a scholar by his very function puts behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance… The world is his, who can see through its pretension.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Everything good is on the highway.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.

My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

When you know better you do better.

When you know better you do better.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.