The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.