• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  • Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

  • A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  • The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

  • There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

  • Life is a lively process of becoming.

  • It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

  • Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  • Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.