Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.