You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

There is always room at the top.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The time is always right to do the right thing

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.