Smith, Barry

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Knowledge is power."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Time flies when you're having fun."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are taken into."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Science is the best tool we have to understand the world around us."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."