“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”

Success and rest don’t sleep together.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Do all things with love.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Your greatest self lies within the hands of your inner child- the you who used to chase their shadows instead run from them.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Moon child with your galaxy heart, cool your heels and stay awhile.

Be bold, child. You are rare and you are brazen light.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.