Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.