"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

"We make the world we live in and shape our own environment."

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

"I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery."

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."