"Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community."

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesna€?t mean he lacks vision."

"If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing."

"The shadows prove the sun shines."

"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."

"Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves."

"Its never too late to have a happy childhood."

"In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you."

"It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb."

"Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives."

"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old."