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

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

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.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.