When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, event in their own backyard.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Magicians prosper because we are willing to be fooled.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. 

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.