We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

You got to get it while you can.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.