"It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'."

"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."

"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved."

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching."

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before."

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."

"A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot."

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"