The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.