A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.