No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Everything you can imagine is real.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

You shape your own destiny.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

We're lost, but we're making good time

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'