Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.