"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

"The paradox of freedom is that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"To conquer fear is to realize that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."

"To dream is to realize that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."