Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.