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

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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