“The winner asks, “May I help?” The loser asks, “Do you expect me to do that?””

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: ‘Choose ye this day.’

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

The adventure of life is to learn.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Do more than be fair: be kind.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain – he is inspired by it.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.