And suddenly you just know it's time to start something new and trust in the magic of beginnings.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.