“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Resist much, obey little.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

We convince by our presence.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

I am welcoming a new phase of life with confidence in my potential to progress in spite of my fears.

Do everything with love, do it because it gives you satisfaction and joy, do it because it feeds your soul, do it because it helps you grow and gives you that confidence in yourself we’re all after.