“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. ”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”

“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has.”

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ”

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ”

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.”

“There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.”

“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!”

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ”

“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ”

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. ”

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

“A man may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. And no matter how strong competition is, business and personal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody.”

“If we do not lay ourselves at the service of mankind, whom should we serve?”

“For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. ”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ”

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”