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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Know thyself.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.