A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

What's done is yet to come.

When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything.

When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amusements, it naturally makes a deeper impression than at other times, either because the contrast makes us more keenly susceptible, or rather perhaps because our senses are then more open to impressions, and the shock is consequently stronger.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.