Echoes

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I've left behind. What message do I want to leave? I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it. You may not find it. But your life matters, and you are here for a reason. And I just hope that that reason will become apparent as you live through your life. I want you to know that, whether or not you find that role that you find that role that you are supposed to play, your life does matter and that every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

The beginnings of all things are small.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?