Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

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.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.