After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

One day, if you have a little bit of talent and a lot of hard work, you're going to find out who you are.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse.

In a time of destruction, create something.

These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

We must turn to each other and not on each other.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.