We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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

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

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.