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

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

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

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.